The Importance of Feeling Good

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There's the idea that if you feel good, then you're going to act good. And in fact, what would even be the point of affective valence that is to say feeling bad or feeling good if not to engender this sort of specific response potential? That's supposedly why the emotion exists and same goes for when you feel bad. So it's enough that it calls into question a lot of the most popular emotion theories right now.

The guest we've been waiting for--Nina Strohminger--joins us to talk about the connection between disgust and humor, cheap laughs, moral character and personal identity, and the British opt-in plan for porn. Plus: how psychologists measure erections and Dave goes Platonist about the form of hilarity. Tamler's daughter should have issued an extra strong disclaimer for this one.

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